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School

McMaster University

Department

Labour Studies

Course

LABRST 1A03

Professor

David Goutor

Semester

Fall

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Progress and Frustrations in Wartime-Pt 2
Issues
-Propaganda
the issues between the conservatives
 war fever and propaganda were the biggest issues
propaganda was nationalistic
everyone has to do their part to win
that creates a number of issues in itself
-Profiteering
Canada had a lot of issues with profiteering
once the war gets going all these companies were contracting to the government
contracting through Britain to Canada
Canadians seen as cheap (since making a lot of money and were not producing
popular products)
workers asked to join the army and then dying
early 1916 the British government told Ottawa they were going to cut Canadian
supplies off
”Patriotic Canadians will not hoard food” (flyer advertisement)
”as bad as it is it will be worse if the Germans win”
-Inflation
simple economic concept, prices rise
companies take advantage of the conditions and rise prices and inflation takes off
inflation upsetting to workers
workers suffered for a long time, and suddenly during the war inflation hits them
prices by 1916-17 were going up way faster than wages
make people think the system is rigged against them
”You talk sacrifice? He knew the meaning of Sacrifice (dead soldier)” advertised
-Ethnic Minorities
see women in their union and workplace, and more immigrants joining together
(solidarity)
-Enemy Aliens
immigrants coming from countries Canadian’s are fighting
deemed as dangerous and arrested
conservative: “enemies among our mist and we have to be careful”
-Dilution
another term for de-skilling
WW1 de-skilling increased
more pressure to innovate in WW1
major leaps forward in technology
conservative elements
-Women’s Work
1916-1917 a lot of the workers came into to do semi-skilled or unskilled work
(aka women)
firs